Imitation shake shingle



Patented Mar. 16, 1926;

UNITED STATES CHARLES E. PUTMAN, OIF-PORTLAND, OREGON.`

-IMITATION SHARE SHINGLE.

Application led September 24, 1924. Serial No. 739,630.

To all lwhom t may concern.'

Be it hereby known that I, CHARLES E. PU'rMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a reside-nt of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Imitation Shake Shingle, of which the following is a speciication. I

This invention relates generally to the wood shingle industry and particularly to the making of ornamental shingles in imitation of the old time split shingles known as shakes.

The principle object of my invention is the production of a wooden shingle having the appearance of' a split shake when laid and yet giving all of the warmth usually obtained from sawed shingles and at the same time capable lof being laid with no greater difiiculty than is the sawed shingle.

I accomplish these results in the manner set forth in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which-,-

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a rafter with roof boards and shingles placed there- Figure 2 is a plan of Figure 1.

FigureJ 3 is a longitudinal section through a shingle of which Figure 4 is a plan and Figure 5 is an end View from the butt end of the shingle.

Referring in detail to the drawing, I have illustrated my product in its preferred form .which is similar to an ordinary sawed shingle of varying dimensions to suit the individual requirements. This shingle has the usual tapering body whose butt 11 is considerably thicker than is its tip 12. -In prac-tice these shingles range in len th from 1 to 3 feet and are laid somewhatess than half of their length to the weather. The

tween the upper side of the shingle and its under side 14 although this is vnot necessarily the case. In some instances the bottoms of the grooves may be'parallel to the upper side of the shingle and in other instances they may be parallel to the under side depending upon variou-s factors. The usual roof boards 15 and rafters 16 are employed.

As previously stated the principal idea in making the present invention was to secure the much desired appearance of a shake roof or to improve upon such appearance while at the same time avoiding the several important attendant drawbacks present with the old form, namely, the difficulty in laying the shingles without breaking them and the entire inability to keep out the air currents since the grooves in the split shingles necessarily extended the entire length of the t'op surface.

In practice the shingles which are very much larger than shingles common in the East, are sawed in the ordinary manner forming a smooth plane tapered shingle which is then passed under a battery of saws or cutters adapted to produce a wavy effect to that portion of the surface of the shingle which is to be exposed to the weather, as best seen in Figure 5 wherein there are a half a dozen troughs and crests making a wavy e'ect in which the waves are quite shallow in height but are quite wide transversely to the shingle length.

I. prefer that the larger waves be grooved by a plurality of rather slight grooves running the entire extent of the waves and of course parallel to the long side of the shingle as are the waves themselves. The grooving of the waves increases the beauty'of the shingle.

I am aware that many attempts have been made to produce imitation shake shingles experimentally such as ri ping a split shake of double thickness whic provides little improvement over the ordinary shake.

I therefore do not claim 'such devices broadly but I do intend to cover all such I claim: 2. A tapered shingle having a plane back 10 1. A tapered shingle having u plane back and g1 face plane toward the upper or thin :1nd n face plane toward the uppei` or thin edge of the shingle and fluted in shallow edge of the shingle and fluted in smoothly wide Waves thruout the exposed area toward curved Waves thruout v the exposed area the lower or thick edge, each of said Waves toward the thick edge, whereby the thicker being out by av plurality of slight parallel l5 portions when leid as a roof or wall will grooves. l

simulate shake shingling and the thinner portions will insure airtightness. CHARLES E. PUTMAN. 

